Piper L4 Grasshopper Military Aircraft

Built between 1937 and 1947 by Piper
Aircraft for all US military forces, the L4 Grasshopper was
based on the civilian Piper J-3 Cub which had been designed
by C. G. Taylor and Walter Jamouneau. Apart from being
painted green the only significant change was a higher
visibility cockpit or "glasshouse", the Piper L4's were used
for reconnaissance, cargo transport, artillery spotting as
well as medical evacuation throughout WW2 and during the
Korean War.

Although the Piper
L4 Grasshopper played an important role
in WW2 the standard Piper J-3 Cub played
an even more important one, it was used
as the primary trainer of the Civilian
Pilot Training Program which trained a
total of over 435,000 pilots during WW2
which effectively equals over 80% of all
US WW2 military pilots.

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